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Re: Clock running slow



On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:16:23 -0800
Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> wrote:

> I setup a machine for a friend and every few days I ssh in to see how
> things look.  Twice now I have found the date about twenty minutes
> behind.

Does the machine have a SCSI bus or a device running under ide-scsi? I
have seen clocks run extremely slow (less than half speed) when using SCSI
devices with disconnects disabled. NTP can fail to correct if the shift is
too big.

James

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